>>462436>Why do certain retards despise women in Transformers?I used to be one of those retards, still am to a certain degree, and can provide an unsatisfactory answer. For me at least it probably came down to a 50/50 split of resistance to change and good old-fashioned hatred of all things outwardly feminine. I was used to all the Transformers being male and to my thinking at the time 'sexless' so on a certain level I found the introduction of female transformers kind of jarring and also sort of personally insulting, like I was being very poorly pandered to. I suppose my opinion on them was probably not too far off from how some fans feel towards human characters, they were not really my interest and I resented their presence. Pretty neutral on female transformers these days, though I viscerally hated Arcee when I was a kid.
I won't dispute the position being called retarded, I think I mostly held on to it out of stubborn immaturity and it is the kind of thing that should be grown out of with time. Screaming into the void and demanding that the entire world complies with my personal preferences is rather a silly way to live.
>As a Beast Wars watcher when I was a kid and later learning the writing team had to fight tooth and nail to even be allowed to have female characters in the showFunny enough, I was never bothered by the female robots in Beast Wars and kind of liked Blackarachnia. Best retroactive explanation I can pull out of my arse is that animal themed transforming robots having sexual dimorphism didn't feel like as much of a stretch.